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The Three Choirs: A Handbook to the Cathedrals of Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester: A Complete Description of the Buildings, a History of Each Diocese and Biographical Notices of the BishopsKing, R. J. (Richard John)

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The Three Choirs: A Handbook to the Cathedrals of Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester: A Complete Description of the Buildings, a History of Each Diocese and Biographical Notices of the Bishops

Name: The Three Choirs: A Handbook to the Cathedrals of Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester: A Complete Description of the Buildings, a History of Each Diocese and Biographical Notices of the Bishops
Author: King, R. J. (Richard John)

King, R. J. (Richard John)

Cathedrals -- England; Church architecture -- England; Gloucester Cathedral; Hereford Cathedral; Worcester Cathedral

[A.D. 1361-1369.] LEWIS CHARLTON; of some distinction as a
     theologian.

     [A.D. 1370, trans. to London 1375.] WILLIAM COURTENAY, son of Hugh
     Courtenay, Earl of Devon. From London Bishop Courtenay passed to
     Canterbury in 1381, and died 1396. As Bishop of London, and as
     Archbishop, he was a strong opposer of Wickliffe. (See CANTERBURY
     CATHEDRAL, Pt. II.)

     [A.D. 1375, trans. to St. David’s 1389.] JOHN GILBERT; was
     translated to Hereford from Bangor. In 1386 he was Treasurer of
     England.

     [A.D. 1389-1404.] JOHN TREVENANT: sent on an embassy to Rome by
     Henry IV. in 1400.

     [A.D. 1404-1416.] ROBERT MASCALL: had been a Carmelite friar at
     Ludlow; whence he proceeded to Oxford, and there, by his learning,
     attracted the notice of Henry IV., who employed him on various
     embassies. He built great part of the church of the Carmelites in
     London, where he was buried. Bishop Mascall was present with Bishop
     Hallam of Salisbury, at the Council of Constance, 1415, 1416.

     [A.D. 1417, trans. to Exeter 1420.] EDMUND LACY. (See EXETER
     CATHEDRAL, Pt. II.)

     [A.D. 1420, trans. to Chichester 1421.] THOMAS POLTON, Dean of
     York. From Chichester he passed to Worcester in 1426.

     [A.D. 1422-1448.] THOMAS SPOFFORD, Abbot of St. Mary’s at York; to
     which monastery he returned in 1448, having resigned his see. “The
     record of his abdication is printed in Rymer’s _Fœdera_, vol. x. p.
     215: in Wilkins’s _Concilia_, vol. iii. p. 538, is a writ of pardon
     for abdicating in favour of his successor, who was to allow him one
     hundred pounds yearly out of the revenues. The Pope testified by
     his bull that Spofford had expended on the buildings of his
     cathedral upwards of two thousand eight hundred marks[53].” No part
     of the cathedral itself can be of Bishop Spofford’s time; but
     possibly he erected the cloisters.

     [A.D. 1449, trans. to Salisbury 1450.] RICHARD BEAUCHAMP. For this
     Bishop, one of the best architects of his time,--the superintendent
     of the works at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor,--see SALISBURY
     CATHEDRAL, Pt. II.

     [A.D. 1451, trans. to Lichfield 1453.] REGINALD BOULERS, Abbot of
     Gloucester.

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